Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft?
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The internet is alive with AI-made content, while markets fizz with AI-inspired investment. Some wonder how creative the technology really is and whether those cashing in have fairly compensated those on whose work the models were trained.
A frenzy of litigation and dealmaking is under way, as rights-holders angle for compensation for providing the fuel on which the machines of the future are run. For AI model-makers, it's an anxious period as they've built on a foundation of sand.
AIs are trained on vast quantities of human-made work to learn by trial and error how tokens are norma. Those holding rights to these creative works view generative AI as an outrage.
Read at The Economist
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